Quotes About Layers Of An Onion

#1. I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level.

Chuck Close

#2. Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

Derrick Jensen

#3. We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.

T. S. Eliot

#4. Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center.

Richard Eder

#5. The beauty of doing a series is that, over the course of time, it's like peeling an onion. You're able to reveal these layers, more and more. You just don't want to reveal too much, too soon.

Harry Lennix

#6. It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

Billy West

#7. These big Internationals, they don't let you down

Nick Farr-Jones

#8. This case is complex. It's got layers to it, Davey. It's a fucking onion ... You're a natural-born onion peeler
the best that ever was.

John Verdon

#9. Sets are fundamental because every mathematical structure,
object or entity can be described as a set. Logic is fundamental because it
allows us to understand the meanings of statements, to deduce information
about mathematical structures and to uncover further structures.

Richard Heath Hammack

#10. When you start peeling the onion and uncovering layers and layers of inequity that have been subsidized by government, it makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

Robert D Bullard

#11. Writers are like onions, layers upon layers upon layers.

Luke Taylor

#12. The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This is what freedom means.

Nicholas Murray Butler

#13. To defeat Fortune, men must anticipate such evils before they arise, and take prudent steps to avoid them. When the waters have already risen, it is too late to build dikes and embankments.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#14. He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.

Ray Bradbury

#15. [A happy ending is] a distribution at the last of prizes, pensions, husbands, wives babies, millions, appended paragraphs, and cheerful remarks.

Henry James

#16. I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my bitter, irritating juices would have stung their eyes, and they would have cried. Although I couldn't cry myself, much at the time. But no one would cut me open.

Crescent Dragonwagon

#17. Man is like an onion. His potential is exposed one layer at a time until all he is, is known by all.

Myles Munroe

#18. Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

Warren G. Bennis

#19. When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

Steve Jobs

#20. It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to you.

Gary Shteyngart

#21. I still buy books faster than I can read them. But again, this feels completely normal: how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life.

Julian Barnes

#22. I consider you mine, because Donna considered you hers.

David Isay

#23. A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.

Patrick O'Brian

#24. Selfless-giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice because we do all of it only for love.

Frederick Lenz

#25. Your problems are not just your problems. Ultimately, they belong to the church body that God has placed you in.

Francis Chan

#26. Sometimes life has its way with you. It peels back the layers of your existence like the skin of an onion until the real you glows underneath, raw and painful to the touch. It's in those moments, in that hour, you look to those that give you strength - for me,

Addison Moore

#27. A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.

Mason Cooley

#28. It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.

Sean Covey

#29. The supernatural world was like an onion. You peel back the layers, only to find more layers, on and on, hopelessly trying to reach the mysterious core. Then you start crying.

Carrie Vaughn

#30. It's my personal onion theory. See, it's like we've all got layers on layers, going deep inside, to layer ten, that place where we're spiritual and private. But we don't show those deep layers.

Dandi Daley Mackall